Contents List

I. Correspondence [series]:
Scope: Consists of correspondence,(1942-1995), grouped into two
subseries: Personal Correspondence and Business Correspondence

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I. 1. Personal and Professional
Correspondence Scope: Consists of correspondence broken into three groups: General
Correspondence, Correspondence with James Merrill, and
Correspondence with Marianne Moore.

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I.1.a General Correspondence Scope: Consists of correspondence filed alphabetically by author,
and then within author files by date.

Ackerman, Diane

5/1/86
(TLS 1p with ANS)

Balaban, John

12/1/79
(ANS 1p)

8/1/81
(ANS 3p on recto of (x) of All Soul's Night:
Romania [poem], by Balaban.)

Barker, Wally

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

Baumel, Judy

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

1/18/90
(ACS 1p)

Bell, Marvin

12/29/74
(TLS 1p)

Bethel, Gar

2/1/73
(ALS 3p)

Boatwright, James

6/11/82
(ALS 2p)

Boruch, Marianne

(TLS 1p)

Browning, Colleen

1/29/86
(ACS 1p)

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

Cardwell, Guy Adams

10/1/60
(ACS 1p)

3/8/70
(ALS 2p)

1/21/71
(TLS 1p)

Carey, Kathleen

1/17/73
(ALS 2p)

n.d.
(ALS 2p)

n.d.
(ALS 2p)

Clampit, Amy

10/24/85
(ALS 1p)

Cohn, Ruby

12/13/80
(TLS 1p)

12/1/82
(ACS 4p)

2/8/83
(TLS 1p)

n.d.
(ALS 1p)

Cole, Henri

9/22/86
(ALS 1p)

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

Craft, Douglas

12/8/84
(ALS 2p)

Danforth, William H.

6/2/86
(TLS 1p)

3/2/87
(TLS 1p)

Davison, Peter

12/3/85
(TLS 1p)

Des Pres, Terrence

12/13/80
(TLS 1p)

12/30/82
(ACS 1p)

Denize, Donna

3/26/87
(ALS 1p)

Duncan, Harry

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

Eigner, Jan

5/26/88
(TLS 1p)

Engle, Paul Hamilton

ca. 1986
(TLS(x) 1p)
Scope: enc.: A Photo of Mrs. Martin Luther King on Cover of
Life [poem], by Engle and
photocopy of newspaper clipping.

Epstein, Daniel Mark

11/19/94
(TLS 1p)

Fine, Jack

12/28/94
(TCS 1p)

Ford, Harry

9/20/94
(TLS 1p)

10/13/94
(TLS 1p)

n.d.
(TLS 2p)

Frost, Carol

11/28/76
(ALS 1p)

12/29/77
(ALS 2p)

3/23/78
(ACS 1p)

9/17/78
(ALS 2p)

Gardner, Isabella Stewart

12/14/72
(TLS 1p)

1/25/73
(ACS 3p)

Gardner, Joan

8/18/71
(ALS 2p)

2/9/76
(TLS 1p)

Gardner, John Champlin

n.d.
(ANS 1p)

Garst, Tom

6/23/82
(TLS 1p)

Gilbert, Creighton

12/21/79
(TLS 2p)

Goldensohn, Barry

5/25/81
(TLS 1p)

3/7/82
(ALS 1p)
Scope: enc.: The Marrano [poem].

5/20/82
(ALS 1p)

7/1/82
(ALS 1p)

n.d.
(ALS 1p with enclosure)

Green, Kate

4/12/83
(TLS 2p with enclosure)

Haberman, Daniel

3/5/85
(ALS 1p)

Hadas, Rachel

11/22/94
(ACS 1p)

Hartman, Charles O.

12/14/76
(ACS 3p)

3/13/78
(TLS 1p)

Hecht, Anthony Evan

10/4/71
(TCS 1p)

10/14/71
(TCS 1p)

3/30/76
(TLS 1p)

7/26/78
(TLS 1p)

8/31/78
(TLS 1p)

8/29/80
(TLS 1p)
Scope: enc.: Sestina d'inverno [poem], by
Hecht.

7/28/82
(TLS 1p)

2/7/83
(TLS 4p)

1/14/88
(TLS 1p)

n.d.
(TLS 3p)

Hecht, Helen

12/3/71
(ALS 3p)

1/3/72
(ALS 2p)

7/7/72
(ALS 6p)

8/2/72
(ALS 4p)

12/31/72
(ALS 4p)

1/7/74
(ALS 4p)

1/30/74
(ALS 2p)

1/5/75
(ALS 3p)

1/9/79
(ALS 2p)

1/1/81
(ACS 1p)

1/2/81
(ALS 2p)

12/26/81
(ALS 2p)

2/7/85
(ACS 3p)

12/27/85
(ACS 2p)

12/29/87
(ACS 3p)

n.d.
(ALS 3p)

n.d.
(ACS 2p)

Heinemann, Katherine Arnstein

3/7/69
(ALS 4p)

5/1/70
(ALS 2p)

3/5/71
(ALS 2p)

Herrin, Lamar

9/1/82
(TLS 1p)

9/21/82
(TLS 1p)

10/29/82
(TLS 1p)

Hersey, Barbara

3/17/88
(ALS 1p)

Hersey, John

3/23/88
(ALS 2p)

Hoffman, Daniel

4/27/86
(TLS 1p)

6/14/87
(TCS 1p)

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

Hollander, John

12/21/87
(ALS 1p)

Howard, Ben

7/10/84
(TLS 1p)

Howard, Richard

4/17/76
(TCS 1p)

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

n.d.
(TLS 1p)
Scope: encl.: In Nine Sleep Valley[poem], by
Howard.

n.d.
(TLS 1p)

n.d.
(TCS 1p)

n.d.
(ACS 1p)

n.d.
(TLS 1p enclosure translation of poem Ts.
1p)

Hudgens, Richard W. M.D.

1/12/87
(ALS 1p)

Ignatow, Rose Graubert

12/1/73
(ACS 1p)

Jacobsen, Josephine

12/1/80
(ACS 3p)

2/20/81
(ALS 2p)

6/28/81
(ALS 2p)

4/9/85
(ACS 1p)

5/3/85
(ALS 1p)

11/9/88
(ACS 1p)

7/25/87
(ACS 1p)

11/12/87
(ALS 1p)

12/8/87
(ACS 1p)

10/10/89
(ACS 1p)

10/17/89
(ACS 1p)

Kazin, Alfred

11/5/87
(TLS 1p)

Kirby, David

1/12/87
(TLS 1p)

Kirchwey, Karl

12/1/87
(TLS 1p)

Kizer, Carolyn Ashley

12/1/80
(ACS 3p)

2/20/81
(ALS 2p)

6/28/81
(ALS 2p)

12/22/87
(ACS 1p)

Knoepfle, John

2/1/71
(ALS 1p)

Kumin, Maxine

1/4/79
(TLS 2p)

1/7/80
(TCS 2p)

11/24/81
(TLS 1p)

9/11/82
(ALS 2p)

Kuzma, Greg

9/14/82
(ALS 1p)

Lawson, Paul

12/1/80
(ALS 1p)

9/21/86
(ACS 1p)

10/13/86
(ALS 1p)

5/2/87
(ALS 1p)

4/23/88
(ACS 1p)

12/17/88
(ACS 1p)

Legler, Philip

9/27/70
(TLS 1p)

3/21/71
(TLS 1p to J. Thurston) Note: End of Box 1

Marshall, Donald G.

1/26/86
(TLS 1p)

Maxwell, William

1/8/85
(TLS 1p)

McAfee, Thomas

12/30/68
(ALS 2p)

7/20/71
(ACS 1p)

8/4/71
(ALS 2p)

8/25/74
(ACS 2p)

7/26/75
(ALS 2p)

McClatchy, J.D.

9/1/76
(ALS 2p)

7/19/81
(TLS 1p)

6/25/82
(TCS 1p)

7/5/85
(TCS 1p)

3/20/86
(TLS 1p)

5/8/86
(TCS 1p)

5/13/86
(TLS 1p)

11/4/86
(TLS 1p enc. clipping)

2/1/87
(TLS 1p)

6/9/87
(ACS 1p)

1/16/88
(TLS 1p)

12/16/88
(ACS 1p)

7/19/94
(TLS 1p)

McKernan, John

n.d.
(ALS 1p)

n.d.
(AC 1p)

Meredith, William

12/7/80
(ALS 1p on verso of In the Rif
Mountains [broadside], by Meredith.)

12/29/82
(ANS 1p on recto of Partial Accounts
[poem], by Meredith.)

1/15/87
(ALS 1p on copy of Airpoet
[poem].)

4/14/88
(TLS 1p)

Miles, Josephine

n.d.
(TN 1p appears to have been transcribed from a
card from Miles.)

Moss, Howard

8/15/85
(ACS 1p)

Nash, Ralph

2/15/71
(TLS 2p)

3/30/71
(ANS 1p filed with letter from Berta Nash:
3/26/71)

Nemerov, Howard

6/14/82
(TLS 1p)

10/13/82
(TLS 1p on verso of xerox of Nemerov's nomination
of Van Duyn to the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters.)

II. 1. Material toward Valentine to the Wide
World (Iowa City: The Cummington Press,
(2 items.)
Scope: Consists of page proofs for book and mimeo sheet of review
comments on Valentines to the Wide
World.

box-folder 8/55-61

II. 2. Material toward A Time of
Bees.
(55 items.)
Scope: Consists of drafts of poems, drafts of book manuscript,
correspondence, proofs, clippings of reviews and other editorial
matter toward A Time of Bees.
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

box-folder 8/55-59

II. 2. a. Drafts. Consists of 3 drafts of the
collection, various drafts of poems included in the
collection, table of contents page and acknowledgement
page.
(18 items.)

II. 3. d. National Book Award material. Consists of
material for National Book Award including press kit with
press releases, acceptance remarks from winners, and NBA
photographs of Van Duyn, Lloyd Alexander, Saul Bellow, Francis
Steegmuller and others. Also included are Van Duyn's drafts of
her acceptance speech, which contains her poem Open Letter
from a Constant Reader, notes made by Van Duyn, letter to
Allen Ginsberg (who had protested Van Duyn's selection for the
award) and poems by Richard Howard and Ralph Nash, written for
Van Duyn.
(42 items.)

II. 5. Material toward Letters from a Father
and Other Poems .
(23 items.)
Scope: Consists of draft, proofs and editorial matter.

box-folder 10/72-73

II. 5. a. Draft. Consists of 70pp Ts draft marked
with typesetter's instructions, including a folder of drafts
of some of the poems in the collection, plus a clipping,
probably collected together for use in a reading.
(18 items.)

II. 6. b. Typed originals of poems for Near Changes. 55 pp Ts. Includes poems
signed for "Ollie on his Birthday" and TLS, 12/4/84 to Van
Duyn from Gate Research Company. Includes table of contents
and acknowledgement pages. Corrected in red ink.

III. Manuscripts and Notebooks [series]:
Scope: Consists of Van Duyn's poems, collected, and individually
foldered in alphabetical order. Also included are various prose
pieces by Van Duyn, as well as her personal notebooks which
include rough draft manuscripts of her poems and prose.

At Pere Lachaise .
(2 drafts, Ts. 4p.)
Scope: 10/16/74. moderate revision. editor's notes on
manuscript; published in The New
Yorker, March 28, 1977; filed in Ser. I.2.a with TL
from The New Yorker, 1980:
March 26.

A Day in Late October.
(53 drafts, Ms, Ts, Ts(cb), Ts(x).)
Scope: none to heavy revision. Subtitled In Memory of
Randall Jarrell; alternatively titled When a
Poet Dies. Earlier Van Duyn poems,
Birthstones, For a Cervantes
and , In the Nick of Time, are included in
this poem.

Moose in the Morning, Northern
Maine .
(2 drafts, Ts. 2p.)
Scope: editor's notes written on manuscript; published in The New Yorker, Sept. 24, 1979; filed
in Ser. I.2.a. with letter from The
New Yorker, 1982: Sept. 20.

To Poets' Worksheets in the
Air-Conditioned Vault of a Library .
(20 drafts, Ts, Ts(x), Ts(cb), Ms. 35p.)
Scope: light to moderate revision. On verso of one draft is
draft of Leda Reconsidered entitled
Did She Put on His Knowledge with Her Power?
published in Carleton Miscellany,
Fall, 1965.

To Record One Must Be
Unwary .
(27 drafts, Ts, Ts(x), Ts(cb), Ms. 37p.)
Scope: none to moderate revision. Published in The Poetry Bag; 1 draft filed in Ser.
I.2.a. with TLS to Carolyn Kizer, 1966: March 16, F28.

VI. Printed materials and magazines [series]:
Scope: Consists of magazines, broadsides, books, 2 posters announcing
readings by Van Duyn, catalog for the Hyam Plutzik exhibit at
University of Rochester, and correspondence with Pomegranate
Press. Also includes Lives and Deaths of the Poets and Non-Poets
[poetry collection].

II.2 Prose
(3 folders)
Scope: Consists of an acceptance speech at the St. Louis "Walk of
Fame" ceremony, a speech for Georgetown, and material for the
Writers Place Kansas City.

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III. Manuscripts by Others
(2 folders)
Scope: Consists of "Death After Death: The Presumption of Informed
Consent for CPR, Ethical Paradox and Clinical Conundrum" by Allan
S. Jaffe and William M. Landau and "Harness for the Winged
Horse."

IV.1 Printed Materials [subseries]:
(6 folders)
Scope: Consists of copies of Firefall,
Lives and Death of the Poets and
Non-Poets, and Matters of
Poetry by Van Duyn. Also includes dust jackets of Firefall and If It
Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982.

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IV.2 Magazines [subseries]:
(1 folder)
Scope: Consists of a copy of The
Formalist.

VIII.1 Cassette Tapes [subseries]:
(7 cassette tapes)
Scope: Consists of cassette tapes of Van Duyn at the Academy of
American Poets (1991), music and Van Duyn reading from Letters
from a Father, The Poetry Center (1995), The Writer’s Almanac
Week of May 3, 1999, and The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison
Keillor (1993).

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VIII.2 Videotapes [subseries]:
(1 videotape)
Scope: Consists of a videotape of James Merrill reading in Simon
Hall at Washington University (1994).